G'day Kim,
In his polemic against Kautsky and in Socialism and War, Lenin argues that
socialists need to look at whether particular wars benefit imperialist
powers or the working class struggle. If they do not then socialists can
and should support them.
It's not as if East Timor was ever
Before I get into needless trouble, I'd better point out that I'm agreeing
with Lenin on the quoted bits of *Infantile Disorder* (not that I quite
agree with the whole book) - and only disagreeing here with the application
of Lenin's polemical poke at Kautsky [on evaluating wars] to the East
Hi again,
To claim as the Green Left does that the E Timorese were in
danger of extermination is to echo the imperialist line that the E
TImorese were helpless at the hands of Wiranto. This is not true, if
they were rendered helpless it was at the hands of the imperialists.
If Djakarta had
January 2000
Mike Hamlin Retires but Continues the Struggle for Justice
By Charles E. Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When veteran labor and human rights activist Mike Hamlin
retired recently, hundreds of well-wishers turned out at
Detroit's historic UAW Local 600 union hall to pay tribute
to one of
On 25 Jan 00, at 1:59, Rob Schaap wrote:
Hi again,
To claim as the Green Left does that the E Timorese were in
danger of extermination is to echo the imperialist line that the E
TImorese were helpless at the hands of Wiranto. This is not true, if
they were rendered helpless it was at the
This abstract from the 20 Jan 00 edition of Nature suggests there is an
undialectical idealism in the discussion of quantum theory in the form of
stories about "Schrödinger's cat".
I am quoting it for the first three sentences.
While chaos theory is modelled in closed systems it does not apply
rOB WRITES...
Well, we've already talked about Rwanda '91-'95. If Burundi is
irrevocably
on that terrible path, I favour the same sort of intervention as the
Guardian was calling for from the starter's hatchet in Rwanda.
Well, when we look at Africa it must be in the context of the
Nice piece. Except one must take up China in all of this and not in the
least the growing inter-imperialist rivalry with Japan..
Bob
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Kim replies;
Bob,
yes GLW did support UN intervention into East Timor. The reason for this
was made clear in a number of articles (which I hope you took the time to
read, and not just the Australian Sparticist coverage of the issues).
At no time did any of the article in GLW down play
